Necessarie.
[proposition 1] BY that precept; Thou shalt not steale, the Israelites could not be reprooued of theft when they robbed Aegypt: * 1.1 since to vsurpe other mens goods against the will of the Lord, belon∣geth vnto the nature of theft. But they carried not out other mens goods, but their own; to wit, being giuen them by God.
[proposition 2] By this precept are established priuate pos∣sessions of things, so as there must be no com∣munitie brought in as touching the possession of all our goods, but onlie as touching a partici∣pation of the vse and fruits.
[proposition 3] The entercourse of merchants, if it be iustlie ordered, is not to be condemned, but it ought rather to be accounted as a bond of humane societie.
[proposition 4] They which deceiue the magistrate of tri∣butes, are guiltie of theft; no lesse guiltie are pr•…•…ces, when they exact greater tributes than reason would; or else when they grant not vnto the subiects those things for the which they paie tributes.
[proposition 5] They which de•…•…a•…•… ministers, yoong students, and the poore, of the goods giuen vnto God, that is, to the church, are within the compasse of theft; and so likewise are these, when they vse those things, and indéed performe not that wherevnto they were instituted.
[proposition 6] All maner of 〈◊〉〈◊〉 is not against this com∣mandement; but onelie that which with the op∣pression and hurt of our neighbour bringeth gaine against the lawes, and also against equi∣tie.
[proposition 7] By this commandement are almes-déeds commanded, which must be so moderated, as a∣mong the people of God there may be a cer∣teine equalitie of things, I meane not geome∣tricall, but arythmeticall.
[proposition 8] The false-witnesse-bearing which is forbidden must not onelie be restreined to the actions of the lawe, * 1.2 but also all maner of significations whereby our neighbour is hurt are forbidden, so that hereby is brideled the mind, the toong, and the actions seruing therevnto.
[proposition 9] Of this precept is inferred, that so much as may be, we should both commend our neigh∣bour and set him foorth to the glorie of God.
[proposition 10] In the lie which they call an officious lie, although we speake otherwise than we thinke the thing is, yet no otherwise than charitie and right reason iudgeth that we should speake.
[proposition 11] In the last commandement wherin it is said, Thou shalt not lust, * 1.3 is declared how much the lawe of God is better than the ciuill lawes and morall philosophie.
[proposition 12] By the first & last precept is shewed, that the lawe is spirituall. For there is a commande∣ment giuen, concerning all the motions of the mind; and from thence is gathered a full mea∣ning of all the other commandements.
[proposition 13] Séeing the first and last commandement are obserued of none, men may by them easilie per∣ceiue themselues to be sinners.